9/13/13
Dagger
Zen teacher Taigen Daniel Leighton said,
"Manjushri is the bodhisattva of wisdom and insight, penetrating into the fundamental emptiness, universal sameness, and true nature of all things. Manjushri, whose name means 'noble, gentle one,' sees into the essence of each phenomenal event. This essential nature is that not a thing has any fixed existence separate in itself, independent from the whole world around it. The work of wisdom is to see through the illusory self-other dichotomy, our imagined estrangement from our world. Studying the self in this light, Manjushri's flashing awareness realizes the deeper, vast quality of self, liberated from all our commonly unquestioned, fabricated characteristics"
9/7/13
The Four Reminders
| Joyful to have Such a human birth, Difficult to find, Free and well-favored. | But death is real, Comes without warning. This body Will be a corpse. |
| Unalterable Are the laws of karma; Cause and effect Cannot be escaped. | Samsara Is an ocean of suffering, Unendurable, Unbearably intense. |
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